Knowing

You are like satin, spilling
over every edge, wanton
consequential though seeming transient
a bond hewn of azure
indigo, and salt …

Malaria Kills Millions Every Year in Africa

Malaria is one of the 21st century’s great plagues. It is responsible for anywhere from 1 to 3 million deaths per year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts to eradicate the disease are mounting: in the year 2000, just 3% of children under 5, in sub-Saharan Africa, slept with mosquito nets; by 2008, that figure had risen to 56%. Aid groups now project that aggressive preventive measures can protect 100% of the population by the end of 2010 and reduce the number of deaths to near zero by 2015.

Un intento

eras noches cuando llovía
o te hiciste mi lluvia en el recuerdo

buscabas alegrías impenetrables
en las horas lentas

cuando el sol bosteza …

Writing & Naming: the Medicine of Acquiring Knowledge

Through the work of writing, I have learned first and foremost that nothing is what it tells us it is, because there is always another level, another way to play at naming, with reality, to bend untruths to be more true, as medicine, as savior, as demon filtered for taste, as a ritual mark of remembrance of tensile perceptual realities, disputed, fought for and reclaimed. There is a line after which language becomes less a tool for understanding and more a mechanism for undermining it, but that line is constantly in motion, and in language, as in physics, we now understand “reversibility generally does not exist”, as per Poincaré.

Lydia, o Destellos en la niebla

Sotto voce, el constante empuje del río que albergaba todos sus secretos le explicó cómo fue. Ya no era la misma. Pasaron años durante esos días, y ahora una ruptura en el inmenso calor dejó que se vieran de otra forma los hechos. Había perdido el hilo hace tiempo, y ahora vio, de repente, que eso tenía importancia. El no ser consciente del peligro le había hecho salir a buscarlo. Fue ella que deshizo su paraíso, ladrillo por ladrillo, quitando tapices y murmullos sin remordimiento. Fue ella que inventó y deshizo el mundo.

Avispa

el tiempo no es
ni la aurora ni el reloj
no es ni un combate
ni el amor en descenso
el tiempo no es de fiar
ni es una corriente
como un río
que esculpe montañas y cavernas …

Medvedev Calls for Sweeping Democratic Change in Russia

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has called for sweeping political and economic reforms, designed to make Russia a modern, advanced democratic society. In his state of the nation address, Pres. Medvedev said Russia needs to evolve from being a “primitive” economy based on raw materials and natural resources to an advanced economy based on unique innovative human knowledge. He also said the new Russia needs to be one of “intelligent, free and responsible people”, not one where political bosses dictate policy.

Health Reform Bill DOES NOT Dictate Treatment

One of the smears Republican opponents of heathcare reform have been pushing is the idea that the reforms passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate would “allow government bureaucrats to get between you and your doctor”, and make decisions about what treatment you can receive. In fact, this is an outright lie, put forth by interests that already do interfere with your doctor’s discretion and deny you care, for profit, and they’re pushing the lie because they don’t want people to know the bill bans any insurance provider —including the government— from dictating treatment options.

MSF Says DR Congo Military Killed Civilians at Vaccination Clinics

Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF/Doctors without Borders) is accusing the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo of firing on civilians at vaccination clinics it was running. MSF goes as far as to allege it was “used” as a means of luring large numbers of civilians to 7 different locations where Congolese troops allegedly fired into the crowds, in what appears to be an attempted assault on the rebel militia Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), operating in northeastern DR Congo.

Decir sin decir

la soledad
ruido de fondo
esparciéndose
la narrativa hablada
revelándose como tejido
de corrientes cruzadas
sagrado nacimiento
de una voz …

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